Human Rights

The Basic instruments of International Humanitarian Law

1. Protocol for the prohibition of the use in war of asphyxiating , Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
   (Entered into force on February 8, 1928)
   
2. Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -1948
   (Entered into force on 12.01.1951 )
   
3. The fourth Geneva Conventions - 1949
   (Entered into force on 21/10/1950 ).
   • First Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the condition of the Wounded and sick in Armed Forces in the Field – 1949
   • Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea – 1949
   • Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War – 1949
   • Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War – 1949
   • Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions :
   • Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) - 1977
     ( Entered into force on 12.07.1978 )
     ( Been amended Annex I to Additional Protocol I in 1993 , well into force on 01.03.1994 )
   • Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), -1977
     ( Entered into force on 12.07.1978 )
   • Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III), - 2005
     ( Entered into force on 14/01/2007 )
     
4. Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict -1954
   (Entered into force on 7 August / August 1956 )
   • Protocols to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property :
   • First Protocol on preventing the export of cultural property from occupied territories and eliminates cold such property to the territory of the State , which moved them -1954
     ( Entered into force on 7 August / August 1956)
   • Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict -1999
     ( Entered into force on March 9, 2004 )
     
5. Convention on the Non- Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity -1968
   (Entered into force on 11.11.1970 )
   
6. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction -1972
   (Entered into force on March 26, 1975 )
   
7. Convention on the Prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques -1977
   (Entered into force on October 5, 1978 )
   
8. The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects -1980
   (Entered into force on 2 December / December 1983 )
   • Amendment to Article I of the Convention - 2001
     ( Entered into force on 18 May 2004 )
   • Protocols to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on conventional weapons:
   • Protocol I on non- Detectable Fragments -1980
     (Entered into force on 2 December / December 1983)
   • Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices -1980 , (amended in 1996 )
     ( Entered into force on 3 December / December 1998 )
   • Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons –1980
     (Entered into force on 2 December / December 1983)
   • Protocol IV on blinding laser weapons -1995
     ( Entered into force on July 30, 1998 )
   • Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War - 2003
     ( Entered into force on November 12, 2006 )
     
9. The International Convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training Mercenaries -1989
   (Entered into force on October 20, 2001 )
   
10. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction -1992
    ( Entered into force on April 29, 1997 )
    
11. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction -1997
    (Entered into force on 1 March / March 1999 )
    
12. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court -1998
    ( Entered into force on 1 July 2002 )
    • Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) - 2002
      ( Entered into force on July 22, 2004 )
      
13. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict- 2000
    ( Entered into force on 12 February 2002 )
    
14. Convention on Cluster Munitions -2008
    (Entered into force on August 1, 2010 )